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HAMPTON — In the span of a lifetime, five months tend to go by in a blink. That is, as long as everything is right in your world. For the Mitchells, October through March brought too many hospital trips and way too much fear. It began with a car crash, which in a normal story would be the scary part. In this one, it's a footnote, along with the MRSA scare and amputation. Because when you get down to it, nothing can match the sheer terror of watching the love of your life dying on the floor. And nothing can prepare you for hearing the words "it's possible she won't make it through the night." To put a spin on Dickens, it was the worst of times. But, in the...

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HAMPTON — In the span of a lifetime, five months tend to go by in a blink. That is, as long as everything is right in your world.
For the Mitchells, October through March brought too many hospital trips and way too much fear. It began with a car crash,...

Following in the footsteps of a high school legend is never easy. Suffice it to say that when the legend is your dad, the shoe size is larger.
Lafayette's Keyana Brown, Bruton's Marcus Carter and Poquoson's Ross Graham have filled their fathers' shoes...

A tanker truck that crashed in the southbound lanes of Route 17 near Hayes Road caused a backup on the highway that lasted for more than two hours.
A Virginia State Police spokeswoman said no one was injured in the accident and no fluids leaked. The...

Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are calling for safer rail shipments of crude oil and better communication with first-responders after the train derailment in downtown Lynchburg that spilled 20,000 gallons of crude into the James River.
In a letter...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe was set to be in Lynchburg Friday morning to thank first responders from last week’s oil train derailment and get briefed on ongoing cleanup efforts, his office says.
A mile-long CSX tanker train carrying Bakken crude from North...

YORK — Richard Shomette wanted to have a new life with his biological mother in Scotland.
He was saving up money to see her again, but his plans were tragically cut short Wednesday when he was hit and killed by a car.
"It was unreal," his...

A major vehicle accident Saturday in James City County, attributed to racing on a street, caused three people to be hospitalized. It also caused the closure of westbound Richmond Road in the 8900 block for several hours in order to investigate.According...

An 87-year-old driver who was traveling the wrong way on Route 58 last Monday has died of his injuries, becoming the second person to die in the two-vehicle crash.
Everett Vincent Majette, 87, of Portsmouth, died of his injuries at Sentara Norfolk...

Three people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a tornado cut a mile-wide path across Gloucester County Saturday, said Gloucester Sheriff Steve Gentry.The victims have been identified as Periccis Gerasimos Koutsoumbinas,a 60 year-old-male,...

Brian Herrmann, a former basketball and football star at Denbigh High who played for three seasons on Christopher Newport's basketball team, died in a car accident Saturday night. He was 21.
CNU coach John Krikorian got the news in an early morning phone...

Virginia ranks 20th-highest for cost of deaths from motor vehicle crashes, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading killer of children, teens, and young adults (ages 5 to 34) and among ...

Australian rock band INXS will play nTelos Pavilion at Harbor Center on Aug. 12, concert promoters announced Wednesday.The band's original lead singer, Michael Hutchence, committed suicide in 1997. In 2005, the group picked Canadian singer J.D....

Here's an announcement on low-flying airplanes visiting Gloucester in the ensuing weeks, courtesy of Gloucester County spokeswoman Christi Lewis: "Residents in Gloucester County may notice low-flying, slow planes canvassing the county in the...

Here's an announcement on low-flying airplanes visiting Gloucester in the ensuing weeks, courtesy of Gloucester County spokeswoman Christi Lewis: "Residents in Gloucester County may notice low-flying, slow planes canvassing the county in the...

NEWPORT NEWS -- On the afternoon of Oct. 23, 2010, Kentel Noel delivered a performance to remember.
It came hours after a phone call he's unlikely to forget.
Noel's cell phone rang at 4 a.m. the day of the game with news that his brother Kyle, 25, had...

In 2001, the month of September promised to be an exciting time for Anne and Arthur Korff of Newport News.Anne directed a women’s choral group called The Songbirds, and they were headed to Scotland to perform. Several husbands, including Arthur, had...

Troy Williams is a 17-year-old high school junior with a Twitter account. And, to date, 3,429 followers.
True, that's 3 million fewer than LeBron James. But Williams, Phoebus' high-flying wing and five-star recruit, is hot property. Take last Saturday...

A two-vehicle wreck on Saturday that claimed the life of Gloucester resident Donald Troy Durham remains under investigation with possible charges pending against the driver who allegedly caused the accident.Donald Troy Durham, 46, of Summerville Drive...

Kobe Bryant is an Olympic gold medalist and international pitchman. Dany Heatley ranked among the NHL's top 10 goal scorers this season and last year was MVP of hockey's world championships. Leonard Little is an aging pass rusher for one of football's...

— Carl Edwards began his charge to the front with nine laps to go at Talladega Superspeedway. He never expected to end up airborne, upside down, sheet metal spewing behind him as his car sailed into the safety fence. The fence bowed, but held, and Edwards...